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Jane Addams Hull House
1,362 wordsJane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860, and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a friend of Abraham Jane's mother dies when she was only two. Her father remarried and her new stepmother brought along two new stepbrothers to add to the already large family. With the fact of Jane's mother passing away she w...
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Planters Imax Theater Pink Palace Museum Room
585 wordsWhen I first moved to Memphis, I decided that I wanted to learn more about my new hometown. I thought that the museums would be the perfect place to help me learn more about Memphis. There is one museum in particular that I will never forget. It is called The Pink Palace Museum. The Pink Palace Museum is a pink grand palace made of pink bricks and pink Georgian marble. Before the palace was transformed into a museum, it was intended to be the home Charles Saunders, founder of the Piggy Wiggly gr...
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Story Takes Place Jay Gatsby
548 words1. CORRECT FORMAT English 2 CP 2. CORRECT PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT Period 8 3. CORRECT SPELLING Mr. Keiser 4. CORRECT SENTENCE STRUCTURE 5 / 2 / 00 This story takes place at West Egg in Long Island, an unfashionable town. It is in the early 1900 s. A. Nick Carraway- Nick is the story narrator. He is a young man from Minnesota who moves to the east after fighting in the First World War. He is Jay Gatsby's next-door neighbor. B. Jay Gatsby- Jay is the title character. He is a wealthy man who lives in...
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Jay Dream In The Greta Gatsby
676 wordsIn F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, the theme of destruction is evident in the life of the character of Jay Gatsby. In order to determine the extent of this destruction it is necessary to review Gatsby's illegally acquired wealth, his artificial lifestyle and his fixation on Daisy. Throughout the entire novel all of these aspects proved to work against the ideals of the American Dream that Gatsby had hoped for. The ultimate realization became that Jay Gatsby fell prisoner to the corrupt dr...
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Tom And Daisy Valley Of Ashes
1,619 wordsThe Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic twentieth-century story of Jay Gatsby's quest for Daisy Buchanan, examines and critiques Gatsby's particular vision of the 1920 's American Dream. Written in 1925, the novel serves as a bridge between World War I and the Great Depression of the early 1930 's. The idealism evident in Gatsby's constant ambition helps define what Fitzgerald saw as the basis for the American Character. Gatsby is a firm believer in the American Dream of self-made succes...
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Play A Role Role In Society
1,129 words... John undergo an essential change. The narrator begins the story as a woman who is somewhat mentally distraught. Throughout the story you can see her become different through her thoughts and actions. By the end of the story she has become clinically insane and is in desperate need for help. John on the other hand does not come to the realization that at the beginning of the story, the narrator has some issues that have to be dealt with and he just ignores them for the most part. Finally at t...
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Television Shows Watching Television
1,181 wordsSex, luxury, and drama sells. But by watching television shows are we putting fantasy thoughts of reality in our head? Isnt that why we watch television in the first place? No one wants to turn on the television and see chubby, middle class citizens go to a cubicle for 10 hours a day, sit in rush hour traffic, get drunk every Friday night with the boys, and spend the rest of the time on the John. I think they had a few movies like that in the last few years, what were they called? Oh yes, Box Of...
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Sex And Alcohol In The Real World
858 wordsMTV has been putting seven strangers into a mansion for years, but none of the previous episodes have been so intoxicated and as sexually charged as The Real World -- -New Orleans. There is Jamie, the typical good-looking frat-boy, Julie, the cute-yet sheltered Morman, Melissa, the confused and neurotic barbie doll, David, your typical (yet pumped up) pimp, Danny, the very hot, but very gay, sweetheart, Kelly, your sexy sorority sister, and Matt, the adorable hippy. By putting seven gorgeous peo...
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Veta Louise Chumley Rest Play
987 wordsCampbell University's Department of Theater Arts Presented Harvey on April 7 th and 8 th and from the 13 th through the 15 th. The play was first presented in the early 40 s. It is also set in this time period. It is a very care-free, take your mind off of your worries comedic work. The main character, Elwood P. Dowd, has a invisible friend, a pooka named Harvey, who accompanies him during his daily activities. A pooka is a mythical creature who appears here and there, where ever it pleases, and...
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Father In Law Father And Son
1,087 words... have interfered before it would have even come to a production and he never would have found anyone to stage it. He wrote his play in such a way that its audience wouldnt take the Germany of The Condemned of Altona literally no one would see the play as a story of a German ex-soldier in 1959 but as a denouncement against the cruelties in Algeria committed by France. Once again, Sartre goes back to his philosophical ideas about the question of free-will, choice and guilt. His protagonist, Fra...
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The Turn Of Screw Henry James
1,262 wordsNo matter if we read Henry James The Turn of the Screw for fun or for a serious purpose, we all seem to undergo the search for Peter Quint and Miss Jersey ourselves as the governess depicts her own story. That is, the existence of the ghosts in The Turn of the Screw has always been in debate. Instead of directly discussing whether the ghosts are real or not, here in this paper, attention will be drawn to the reliability of the governess, the narrator of the story. After making a close examinatio...
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C S Lewis Four Children
1,520 wordsNarnia... a land of fantasy and adventure where magic and a Great Lion prevail. A land where so many people wish to be, a land from start to finish in The Chronicles of Narnia. Seven books written by Clive Staples Lewis have proven to be the most enchanting and mesmerizing books of all time. Pure beauty and amazing imagery allows the reader to become an explorer of Narnia and take part in the fascinating adventures bound to happen. Readers become one with the pages, not wanting to put the book d...
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Sky Said Signaling Covered With Blood Faith
1,402 words... ake Blue in his left leg, with a wooden stake. That does sound easy. Sky said (through Faith). Im sure that well be able to kill it without any trouble at all. Thats what you think, Sky. said Melinda. I think Sky's right. Faith said. The only real hard part will be finding Blue! Well, lets go find him, then. Sky thought. I was just going to say I mean, I was just going to think that, Faith thought. Faith and Sky gathered all their weapons and left to find Blue. All they really had to bring w...
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Dan Cody Upper Class
717 wordsIn Fitzgeralds novel, The Great Gatsby, the protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is transformed from a poor working class boy to a wealthy romantic, all due to his pursuit of ideals. The Ideals that Gatsby strives to achieve are: the acquisition of wealth, re-defining his character in pursuit of perfection, and attaining his ideal romantic love. His first Ideal is to escape the working class and attain a position in the upper class. When Gatsby was young he was nothing more than a salmon fisher and a clam d...
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Girl Of The Streets Sister Carrie
1,360 wordsThings are not always as they seem. For instance, take Thomas Hardy's Tess of the dUrbervilles: A Pure Woman, Stephen Cranes Maggie: Girl of the Streets, and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. At the surface they appear to be quite different. Tess written in 1871 by a British man by the name of Hardy, Maggie written by an American in 1893, and Carrie being written by an American in 1900. All disparate. Or are they? Hardy, Crane, and Dreiser's writings share an important relationship, the heroine....
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Edgar Allan Poe House Of Usher
826 wordsWhen reading a work by Edgar Allan Poe, one is drawn into a strange and disturbing world. Poe was a very talented writer with a vigorous imagination, along with an immense writing talent. The reader can actually visualize step by step everything that is happening, which is a result of Poe's unique style of writing. Poe mostly wrote poems and tales of dark and terror-inspiring subjects. Edgar Allan Poe's unique use of setting, atmosphere, and symbolism reflect his gothic sensibilities. In The Fal...
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Dining Room Living Room
521 wordsThe Leonis Adobe was built in stages; however, who and when the original portion of it was built is still under research. At first, there appears to have been a simple adobe farmhouse with whitewashed walls. This original portion of the house is believed to date back to 1844, and if this is so it is almost certain that Leonis did not build it. In any event, about 1880 he extensively enlarged and remodeled the house into the gracious Monterey style mansion you see today, and he and Espirtu moved ...
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Pyncheon Mansion House Holds Story
620 wordsThe mood of Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables is dark, and painstakingly creepy and slow. The story centers around the murders of two men, centuries ago, the curse that was placed upon the house as a result of that conflict, and the repercussions to the current generation. The overall story is like that of a nightmare of total and complete oppressive darkness. Not so much the fright that results from images of goblins and monsters, but that feeling of being scared of the dark; not becaus...
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Morally Correct Rich Men
997 wordsI watched Designing Women? Monette? I watched an older sitcom aired on prime time television in the late 80? s, Designing Women about four typical working ladies. One is a bubble-brain beauty pageant champ. Another is a soft touch and is so easily duped, it seems she also has a soft brain. A third falls in and out of love at the drop of a bathrobe and the fourth has a tongue that makes Howard Stern sound like a Boy Scout. Typical is everything these ladies are not, and as regular viewer I can su...
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Major De Spain Late 19 Th Century
2,646 wordsCritical Review of William Faulkners Barn Burning William Faulkner's short story, Barn Burning, portrays the problems (an extreme case) of a sharecropping family in the late nineteenth century South. This story concerns itself primarily with a rupturing relationship between a father and son, presenting itself through stunning and sometimes very difficult to understand use of symbolism. Barn Burning is a sad story because it clearly shows the classical struggle between the privileged and the unde...
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